Adam88

By the time Khrushchev and Bulganin visited Oxford in the 50s and Stalin had been airbrushed the undergraduates sang out "Poor old Joe" to a beaming Nikita.

Very pleased to read this and I hope things continue to improve for you. We are fortunate that while we can admire the elegant railway products of our forefathers we don't have to endure their dentistry.

Yes. IIRC there were primary, secondary and tertiary with slightly different symbology for each. The OS resurveyed the country in the mid-20C partly because the locations of quite a few of the originals had been lost. This seems an unusual place for a trig point but perhaps the location pre-dates the railway.

In a parallel universe Ian Nairn would be living with us in Castle Aching.

I see that there are more recent books on Great Northern atlantics but do not have these myself. The worlds locomotives: A digest of the latest locomotive practice in the railway countries of the world by Charles Sidney Lake (Author) Percival Marshall (1905), 380 pages This is a widely available, popular Edwardian era book with a chapter on atlantics which includes some GA drawings, including of the backhead. No tender drawings though. You could try asking or even joining the Great Northern Society, it's the sort of thing the line societies are very good at.

Not a brilliant picture, it came from . I'm sure other RMWeb watchers will be able to do better. Steam Index is often worth checking out.

That's a fine period piece and very appropriate for HM's birthday. It (they?) would look splendid at the head of a royal train proceding sedately to Windsor or Ballater. I had to go upstairs to see what Mike Sharman had to say on the subject: "With the coal carried over the driving wheels and presumably only one fireman carried he was cursed with the problem of not knowing if he was coming or going!"

Was that the one with a horse-drawn hearse upstairs?

Very flat, Norfolk

Iain, a similar set, but with a brake compartment, can be seen on this Railway Roundabout film from 1961-62: https://youtu.be/dHzB-I6A5P0?t=1920 at 32:00 minutes onwards.

Wasn't that the basis of the post-war Libyan economy?

No mention of detonators in the relevant poetry.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/steam-engine-no-1450-50142/view_as/grid/search/keyword:ivatt/page/1 Leads to this rather pleasant contemporary image.

I missed out on the library discussion. I've recently started to catalogue my own collection and have started planning yet more bookshelves. I use an on-line cataloguing system called LibraryThing which suits my purposes very well for a number of reasons. It tells me that my books are getting rather too many in number. That in turn reminded me of my visit to Petersen House opposite Ford's Theater in Washington where the stack of books on Honest Abe is also rather tall.

Shouldn't there be a little more in the frame department Tony? It's been bothering me. This one looks as though the weight of the bunker is supported by little more than air.

That's not such a good way to get your ears lowered. I bet what was left of them weren't half ringing.

Some still are.

Boots dispense with accuracy was the claim.

That's the recently repainted Alexa, isn't it?

I saw NG and thought narrow gauge as opposed to EM/S4 but then realised you were talking about News Groups. No-one would troll OO people, would they?

There is also this one:

Personally I never think Cornwall's unpainted dome suits her. One photograph of her in that condition was published once and shortly afterwards the paint vanished. Most unCrewelike IMHO.

They don't seem to have many friends at the NRM either. :-(

I think we've all been caught out like that at some point or other. In my case it was so thin it trickled off the bush, ran down to my elbow and dripped onto the floor.